Rashad Robinson’s article in the Huffington Post provides a viewpoint from the gay and lesibian community about Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie Bruno.
Some audiences – including, I’m sure, allies and members of our community — will simply not agree that these images are offensive. Others will find it frustrating to be confronted with demeaning, stereotypical images that feel like they’re aimed not at increasing people’s discomfort with homophobia, but rather at decreasing their comfort with gay people.
Sacha Baron Cohen is taking on the reputation of another country again. Only this time it is in his Bruno character representing Austria where last time was Borat upsetting Kazakhstan.
Austria officials are worried that Bruno’s outlandishly gay personality will be a threat to the country’s world image – and economy. – UK Telegraph Article
If only Bruno was American, then we can blame him for the US economy turmoils too.
International Version with Red Band not available in the United States to protect the innocent and naive. The trailer is much more outrageous than the watered down Green Band version of the Bruno Movie trailer.
How do you defend yourself against a man with two dildos?
Universal Pictures responded to Richelle Olson’s suit against Cohen and NBC Universal as
“frivolous” and saying its claims were “baseless.”
Universal said: “filmed footage of the full encounter, which took place more than two years ago, clearly shows that Ms. Olson was never touched or in any way assaulted by Sacha Baron Cohen or any member of the production and suffered no injury.”
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